smudge

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
2. (countable, uncountable) Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
3. (US, countable, uncountable) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
4. (countable, especially, uncountable) A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

Verb

1. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
2. To soil or smear with dirt.
3. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
4. To stifle or smother with smoke.
5. (intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
6. (transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

Concepts

tache

maculer

salir

bavure

souiller

souillure

tacher

rature

auréole

traînée

barbouiller

lubrifier

peu

Synonymes

smear

stain

spot

blot

soil

blemish

smirch

smut

daub

slur

blur

smutch

speckle

mark

blotch

splotch

besmirch

moil

impurity

discoloration

speck

smoke

make dirty

macula

mar

patch

plaster

pop-up

raze

slack

smoulder

smudginess

soak

soot

spottiness

stains

steam

stigma

streak

sully

taint

tarnish

touch

turn

vapor

tache

measles

punctum

sooty mould

absorb

Traductions

mancha

macchia

Fleck

Schmutzfleck

insudiciare

embadurnar

tiznar

μουτζούρα

beschmutzen

smet

vlek

λεκές

oscurecer

tiznón

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/smʌd͡ʒ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: *smogen

Appartenant à moyen anglais: besmudded

Appartenant à moyen anglais: smod

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: smoddich

In summary

Derived from the verb (see below). Doublet of smutch.